The UARB decision doesn’t appear to punish Stock Transportation for firing its whistle-blowers or do anything to get Bishop and LePage their jobs back, let alone making the company pay a real price for its egregious behaviour as the province's largest designated operator of buses intended to carry school children.

Last week, the province’s Utility and Review Board issued a scathing, 180-page decision accusing Nova Scotia bus operator Stock Transportation of “repeatedly operat[ing] its public passenger vehicles, including its school buses, as it wished and contrary to the Acts, rules, regulations, its licenses, and orders; even drivers’ safety regulations.” Stock not only ran an unlicensed...